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Monday, May 21, 2012

Congressional Hearings – Week of 5-21-12

The House is out-of-town this week so that half of the
Building is quiet. The Senate is in session, but the only hearings of concern
for the cybersecurity people is the mark-up hearings for the Senate’s version
of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDA) for 2013. The full Senate
Appropriations Committee will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday to markup that bill. It will be interesting to see how different it
is from the House version passed last week.

Don’t expect any big news in that bill. The unclassified
parts of cyber-warfare and cybersecurity will be very minor mentions in the
bill. Still we watch for what we can see.

About Me

I spent 15 years in the US Army as an Infantry NCO. After getting out of the Army I started working in the chemical industry, getting my BSc Chemistry degree while working as a technician. I spent 12 years working as a process chemist in a specialty chemical company. Most recently I worked as a QA/R&D Manager in a specialty chemical manufacturing facility. Currently I am working as a freelance writer.